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Alexander Milas is an erstwhile archaeologist, broadcaster, music journalist and award-winning decade-long ex-editor-in-chief of Metal Hammer magazine. In 2017 he founded Twin V, a creative solutions and production company. In 2019 he launched the World Metal Congress, a celebration of heavy metal’s global impact and an exploration of the issues affecting its community. His other projects include Space Rocks, a festival space exploration in partnership with the European Space Agency and the Heavy Metal Truants, a charity cycle ride which has raised over a million pounds for four children's charities which he co-founded with Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood. He is Eddietor of the official Iron Maiden Fan Club, head of the Heavy Metal Cycling Club, and works closely with Earth Percent, a climate action group. He has a cat named Angus.

Latest articles by Alexander Milas

HIM is dead: Ville Valo's final interview ever

By Alexander Milas published 8 November 17

Here, for the first and only time, Ville Valo reveals why HIM have chosen to go out with a with a bang after 26 years, and why some things are best left to die

Interviews

How the 90s dragged goth from the underground

By Alexander Milas published 6 September 17

As the 80s drew to an end, post-punk and goth rock were going overground, subverting the mainstream and turning everything but the water black…

Culture

How The Black Parade turned My Chemical Romance into superstars

By Alexander Milas published 23 October 16

Six months after The Black Parade made My Chemical Romance the biggest band on the planet, we tried to find out if that success had become a poisoned chalice...

Interviews

What happened on the first day of Heavy Metal Truants 2016?

By Alexander Milas published 9 June 16

The Heavy Metal Truants are cycling to Download festival for charity once again

Culture

Opinion: Why Bruce Springsteen was right to boss North Carolina

By Alexander Milas published 11 April 16

The Boss isn't being "a bully" or a petulant millionaire rock star – he's making a genuine difference in highlighting an unfair law

Bands & Artists

What Mountain Taught Me About Moby Dick

By Alexander Milas published 26 December 15

How a classic rock song started a personal obsession

Bands & Artists

Louder Than Life: we get fried in Kentucky

By Alexander Milas published 20 October 15

It's Louisville's premier Bourbon and gourmet man-food festival... and a bunch of bands just happen to be playing

Music Festivals

Slayer: Houses Of The Unholy

By Alexander Milas published 9 October 15

Kerry King isn’t just the face of Slayer. As he revealed one sunny day in LA back in 2006, he’s got more than just a few litres of Jägermeister beneath the surface.

Interviews

It Takes A Pillage

By Alexander Milas published 1 September 15

Folk, metal, and history combine for a Norwegian Fjord Fiesta

Music Festivals

Mastodon & Clutch: Minority Report

By Alexander Milas published 23 June 15

There are few certainties in life but death, taxes and Clutch and Mastodon putting on a show for the history books. We caught up with them in New York to talk new music and a metal bromance...

Interviews